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This is one of the sweetest things I've ever seen! Check out this adorable opossum named Maggie who recently received some new wheels from a company called Walkin' Pets, which creates mobility device… [+1446 chars]
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Alexis Nikole Nelson Alexis Nikole Nelson/Alexis Nikole Nelson One way that people connect with their heritage is through food, and for some that means eating wild food. While there isn't an organi… [+4459 chars]
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For Sanaa Shah's family, summer in Australia is worlds apart from the carefree coastal lifestyle depicted in travel brochures. "We don't have a close-by beach to go to," the 20-year-old says. "We … [+7888 chars]
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Modern medicine has extended our lives and reduced suffering in all kinds of ways. Many of the impactful interventions we have available today have been around for a long time, like antibiotics, most… [+261 chars]
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2023 has been a year defined by artificial intelligence innovation, with OpenAI at the helm. An AI apocalypse didnt collapse society into chaos, but everyone in Silicon Valley did try to add some sor… [+1523 chars]
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We miss the days when computers looked like computers. You know, blinking lights, rows of switches, and cryptic displays. [Phil Tipping] must miss those days too since he built PlasMa, a “mini-mainfr… [+1426 chars]
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Fox Searchlight 2024 is right around the corner, so we only have a few more days to celebrate the highs and lows of 2023’s film slate. Fortunately, this year has given movie fans plenty to talk abou… [+8834 chars]
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Mark Kistler aka Commander Mark stars in a new documentary The Secret Cities of Mark Kistler, that tells the story of Kistler's legacy and how it all happened. Corgan Pictures Commander Mark had bi… [+5053 chars]
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The Endangered Species Act is 50 years old Thursday. In recent years, the act has become a pawn in partisan battles over federal regulatory powers, with opponents arguing the law infringes upon priva… [+8003 chars]
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Zack Snyder knows what hes doing. Whether its using his considerable popularity to his artistic benefit, or focusing on every single piece of minutia in a movie, the filmmaker is completely aware. So… [+8289 chars]
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Humans have just experienced what will go down as the hottest year in recorded history -- so far -- as the planet experienced heating at an unprecedented pace. Throughout 2023, records for the warme… [+8581 chars]
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Director Zack Snyder is famous not just for his films, but also for his passionate fanbase. And while most of Snyders fans vocalize that on social media, one of the biggest did so via traditonal medi… [+1829 chars]
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Arno J. Mayer, à Paris, en février 2002. FRÉDÉRIC SOULOY / GAMMA Pour Arno Joseph Mayer, lhistoire était la continuation de la politique par dautres moyens. Lhistorien, professeur à Princeton entre … [+2923 chars]
Read MoreThe venture capitalist Kleida Martiro.Courtesy of Kleida Martiro <ul> <li>Kleida Martiro climbed the ranks from associate to Glasswing Ventures partner in four years.</li> <li>She's been investing i… [+4185 chars]
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What’s the most thrilling part of rocketry? Well, the liftoff, naturally. But what about the sweet anticipation in those tense moments leading up to liftoff? In other words, the countdown. Where did … [+3450 chars]
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The science is clear: from a health perspective, the less you drink, the better. But alcohol is a cornerstone of nearly every personal and professional gathering, so you may not always want to abstai… [+6581 chars]
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The case study involved just one patient: a 20-year-old woman with severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). But the studys results were so dramatic that they appeared in 2021 in the New England Jou… [+11116 chars]
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Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub (center) stands with other executives from the oil giant, along with partner companies, at the groundbreaking celebration for the Stratos direct air capture plant. Jordan… [+15093 chars]
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Es imposible que los entusiastas de la física de partículas no nos emocionemos con lo que tiene entre manos ahora mismo el CERN (Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear). Los físicos y los… [+4003 chars]
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7 There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one scienc… [+5023 chars]
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As in most years, much of the media focus in 2023 was on the myriad crises people all over the world faced, from horrific wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East to devastating natural disasters (… [+12941 chars]
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This is the great bewilderment: that out of a cold austere cosmos arose the roiling wonder of life, from the tiniest archaeans that have “confronted sulfuric boiling black sea bottoms and stayed” to … [+7090 chars]
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7 Every so often, you live through a year that you know you're going to remember. Sometimes it's because of a personal milestone. Other times it's because of noteworthy events that affected all of u… [+3160 chars]
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Even if you believe, as some do, that the world has moved from Peak TV to Trough TV, there are still more shows released in any given year than any one person could consume (trust us, we tried). Betw… [+9597 chars]
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To freelance like this means staying out late to trap, keeping the captured cats overnight, delivering them to a clinic in the morning, picking them up in the afternoon, housing them for a second nig… [+6564 chars]
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This 10.0 mm (0.4 inches) monster snowflake holds the Guinness record for the largest snow crystal. A microscope was used to photograph it in four quadrants, which were later digitally recombined. K… [+5867 chars]
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"Of course AI is a bubble," argues tech activist/blogger/science fiction author Cory Doctorow.The real question is what happens when it bursts? Doctorow examines history — the "irrational exuberance… [+3104 chars]
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Approaching his 86th birthday, Donald Knuth — Stanford's beloved computer science guru — honored what's become a long-standing tradition. He gave a December "Christmas lecture" that's also streamed o… [+959 chars]
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In September, Elon Musks brain-implant company Neuralink announced the much-anticipated news that it would start recruiting volunteers for a clinical trial to test its device. Known as a brain-comput… [+2333 chars]
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The number of climate activists referred to the Prevent anti-terrorism programme has increased following the emergence of disruptive environmental protests, the BBC has learned. The UK government's … [+7881 chars]
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Exemptions for immunizations required in school are on the rise in the U.S., leading to concerns among medical experts that diseases like measles could soon make a comeback in many states. In Novemb… [+8982 chars]
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Like every year, I used a lot of tech in 2023, including the latest phones, tablets, audio gear, smart home tech, and accessories — So. Many. Accessories. And because I don't know any better, I bough… [+9997 chars]
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Yes, thats Uranus. The giant icy orb looks more like an agatized dinosaur egg than a planet in this new image from the Webb Space Telescope. Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, still holds plent… [+299 chars]
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LG South Korean electronics giant LG has announced a handful of new educational, personal growth, and lifestyle apps and content that will run on its webOS-based smart TVs. In the lead-up to CES 20… [+3218 chars]
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Replay: New Shepard Mission NS-24 Webcast Blue Origin sent its suborbital rocket to the edge of space and back in its first flight since a 2022 midair explosion grounded its operation. The single-s… [+2486 chars]
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Scientists have discovered what may have prompted early human ancestors to begin developing speech and language. As the landscape in which ancient hominids lived transformed from dense forests to op… [+3551 chars]
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The 440 lawsuits brought against the makers of Tylenol and generic acetaminophen do not have "admissible evidence" to show that prenatal exposure to the medication can lead to autism or ADHD, a feder… [+3022 chars]
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Great childrens books are works of philosophy in disguise — gifts of wonder and consolation not only for the very young, but for the eternal child in each of us, conferring upon us what Maurice Senda… [+24997 chars]
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La IA es realmente buena a la hora de identificar caras, objetos o animales. Esas prestaciones se han aprovechado tradicionalmente en ámbitos cotidianos como la gestión de fotos con Google Fotos o Ap… [+3637 chars]
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If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.2023 delivered us the ultimate gamers dilemma: smooch or spaceship? At its core, this might be th… [+9559 chars]
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One of the most important people in Israel right now is a 22-year-old military press officer. In recent weeks, Masha Michelson has become the face of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on social media. … [+27570 chars]
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As health reporters and editors, we know what's good for us. But that doesn't mean we always do it. This year, each of us took at least one thing we've learned covering health and applied it to our… [+6888 chars]
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In her 2014 NBC News special A Leap of Faith, Meredith Vieira touted the potential of renowned Italian thoracic surgeon Paolo Macchiarini's work as follows: "Imagine a world where any injured or dise… [+6006 chars]
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With the end of the year upon us, so is the holiday travel rush. AAA estimates 115 million Americans will head 50 miles or more from home over the festive period, making it the second busiest end-of-… [+4832 chars]
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Data retention is a funny thing. Atmel will gladly tell you that the flash memory in an ATmega32A will retain its data for 100 years at room temperature. Microchip says its EEPROMs will retain data f… [+7279 chars]
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It’s weird to think that an abacus would have still been used sixty years ago, or so posits the documentary series The Computer and the Mind of Man. This six part series originally aired on San Franc… [+1859 chars]
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Everyone knows that the most important part of a tech demo is to make the right impression, and the team over at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) definitely had this part nailed down when they … [+1163 chars]
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undeniably witnessed a meteoric rise in recent years, revolutionising industries, transforming economies, and reshaping the way we live and work. Emergn has found tha… [+5520 chars]
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AIs ability to beat human players in games like chess and GO is no longer surprising. After all, artificial intelligence has proved it can outperform its animate creators in certain tasks, especially… [+2949 chars]
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As a counsellor, Claire Jennings has always been there for other people. But she is one of hundreds of disabled people caught up in a contractual dispute between a county council and a firm that prov… [+5385 chars]
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Last month, astronomers focused the Webb Space Telescope on the galaxy MRG-M0138 and found something surprising: a supernova in the ancient universe, magnified for your viewing pleasure by the gravit… [+2897 chars]
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The owners of a French farmhouse where British teenager Alex Batty stayed during his years missing abroad have spoken about his time living there. Alex left home in Oldham, Greater Manchester, with … [+2191 chars]
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The highest and hardest task of life may be to become entirely ourselves — to continually purify and clarify who and what we are, shedding the shoulds of culture, convention, and expectation to disco… [+4690 chars]
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El Modelo Estándar es la mejor descripción que tenemos del mundo de la física de partículas. Es tan robusto y perfecto que, a pesar de llevar muchos años buscando fisuras en él, los físicos aún no la… [+4109 chars]
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"No hay preguntas tontas afirma el dicho, solo tontos que no preguntan". Hace algunos años los físicos Rouslan Krechetnikov y H. C. Mayer decidieron aplicarse esa máxima e indagar en un enigma que pr… [+7633 chars]
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Local resident Wayne Cox and friend Irma Parrilla, visiting from Orlando, brave gusty winds and drizzling rain to visit Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables, Fla., on Friday. Rebecca Blackwell/AP … [+2102 chars]
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Bill McGuire is Professor Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London and author of "Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide."He also writes on CNN that it's "essential" … [+4159 chars]
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Earlier this month, Amazon came under fire as the Los Angeles Times reported on a leaked confidential document that "reveals an extensive public relations strategy by Amazon to donate to community gr… [+2165 chars]
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In 2020 a NASA spacecraft visited the asteroid Bennu. In October it returned to earth with a sample. Monday scientists got their first data about it at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union — w… [+2073 chars]
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When scientists search for places beyond Earth that could potentially host life, they don’t only consider far-off exoplanets. They are also interested in locations right here in our solar system — an… [+2560 chars]
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More than 2 million Tesla vehicles have been recalled over a safety issue related to its Autopilot software -- specifically, a feature called Autosteer that's part of the driver-assistance system. T… [+5402 chars]
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Friday marks one month until the 2024 Iowa caucuses, the official start to the Republican presidential nominating process. But the primary has been carrying on unofficially for nearly a year now and … [+6592 chars]
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La ciencia a veces se presenta con paradojas, y esta es una de ellas. Un equipo de investigadores del Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) de la NASA ha descubierto la presencia de cianuro de hidrógeno en Encéla… [+3750 chars]
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A mosquito species that arrived in the United States in the 1970s as stowaways in used tires is slowly making its way across the continent, spreading dengue, West Nile virus, Zika, chikungunya, and e… [+1180 chars]
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The Voyager 1 spacecraft is experiencing a communication issue, meaning it is currently unable to send science data back to Earth. Launched in 1977, the pair of Voyager probes are the most distant ma… [+2242 chars]
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The rubber band example does indeed have two nodesthey are at the ends of the rubber band where your fingers hold it. We only have half a wavelength in the standing wave, but there is indeed a relati… [+2629 chars]
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In recent years, several states and localities have passed crown laws, statutes that keep employers from discriminating against African Amercans for wearing their hair in natural styles. Thats becaus… [+576 chars]
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The human body, consisting of 37 trillion cells, poses a complicated challenge for biologists who strive to comprehend how these cells interact to maintain life. Spatial omics, a newly emerging secto… [+1842 chars]
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In a paper published in Nature today, the researchers say it is the first time a large language model has been used to discover a solution to a long-standing scientific puzzle -- producing verifiable… [+2818 chars]
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Parents of children who died in circumstances linked to social media and gaming have accused the government of "watering down" online safety laws. They claim Science Secretary Michelle Donelan is m… [+4696 chars]
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Researchers from the SETI Institute report what may have been the first conversation with whales in the humpbacks' own language. The SETI scientists have been exploring interspecies communication to … [+1444 chars]
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Noted pedo guyElon Musk "donated" $100 million to help "The Foundation" get up and running. First, it'll be a private primary and secondary school; then, a university will appear to proctor these T… [+1115 chars]
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Four cabinet ministers in Japan quit on Thursday over a fundraising scandal involving the ruling party's most powerful faction. More than 500m yen (£2.8m; $3.4m) is alleged to have ended up in slush… [+2962 chars]
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Thierry Breton, comisionado europeo, sacaba pecho orgulloso el pasado 8 de diciembre. "Deal!" ("¡Acuerdo!"), escribía en un mensaje en X. Debajo, casi en modo influencer, publicaba un diagrama de tar… [+19836 chars]
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Nations at the UN climate summit have for the first time taken explicit aim at the use of fossil fuels. The talks in Dubai came close to collapse but in a dramatic turn-around, nations agreed to "tr… [+5174 chars]
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Harvard President Claudine Gay is saying she did not commit plagiarism in her 1997 Ph.D. thesis, despite comparisons showing word-for-word similarities with other authors' papers. From The New York … [+1852 chars]
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The Biden administration has disclosed its inaugural federal financial support for computer chip production, allocating $35 million to BAE Systems to enhance output at a facility in New Hampshire. Th… [+2456 chars]
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Iris van Herpen, septembre 2022. ROBIN DE PUY Lorsquelle était adolescente, Iris van Herpen adorait les mathématiques et la biologie. La Néerlandaise de 39 ans, à qui le Musée des arts décoratifs de… [+2414 chars]
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[The astrophysicist Shep] Doeleman said a black hole formed from folding the Earth in half could power Manhattan for a year. The Harvard Gazette, May 13, 2022. Yes, there are trade-offs. We discove… [+2951 chars]
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The arrests of several pro-democracy protesters alongside record-low turnout on Sunday in Hong Kongs first district elections in four yearsa period that has been marked by the tightening of Beijings … [+3466 chars]
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The Hubble Space Telescope is back to full operations after spending several weeks in safe mode due to a problem with one of its components. The telescope first experienced issues with one of its gyr… [+2463 chars]
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Elon Musk is a huge gaming fan — despite his dislike of Grand Theft Auto.Taylor Hill/Getty Images <ul><li>Elon Musk posted on X that he isn't a fan of "Grand Theft Auto" as he "didn't like doing cri… [+5006 chars]
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Our most-read science stories this week contain a few timeless life lessons. One, dont go into an MRI room carrying metal, particularly if that metal is a loaded gun. Two, dont cross a killer whale, … [+3242 chars]
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A long-sought and disputed project in drought-prone California aimed at capturing more water during heavy rain storms reached a key milestone on Friday when Gov. Gavin Newsom's … [+4341 chars]
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday announced that it has approved Casgevy, the first CRISPR gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, paving the way for thousands of patients i… [+5360 chars]
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Fans have taken to social media to vent their surprise and frustration after Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man 2 failed to net a single win at The Game Awards 2023, despite being nominated in seve… [+4298 chars]
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An avalanche of new game announcements hit at The Game Awards 2023, ranging from the return of classic franchises to the reveals of all-new worlds. For those of you looking for a rundown of everythin… [+8763 chars]
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The Hubble Space Telescope recently suffered a glitch that made it go into safe mode, so it has not been collecting new science data since November 23. But on Friday, December 8, NASA will attempt to… [+2265 chars]
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For months, Al Gore has vocally panned the choice to put Sultan Al Jaber, the CEO of the United Arab Emirates state-owned oil company, in charge of the annual United Nations climate conference known … [+2756 chars]
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By the end of the decade, NASA’s Artemis program hopes to have placed boots back on the Moon for the first time since 1972. But not for the quick sightseeing jaunts of the Apollo era — the space agen… [+7825 chars]
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The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) runs a free program that allows creators to certify that their hardware complies with the community definition of open source hardware. Whenever you see … [+2482 chars]
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It was easy to miss, amid the horrors, what answered them. In the blood-soaked weeks that started on Oct. 7, the most consequential acts in Israel and in Gaza may also have been the least noticed, ca… [+17877 chars]
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Is Mk really flat? Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0. From where I am sitting, the earth is flat. The floor that runs the length of the unit my hackerspace sits in is flat, the concrete apron behind it on… [+4232 chars]
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Its a question as old as the tech industry itself: can Europe compete with Silicon Valley? This reared up again in my mind for two main reasons. The first is the recent(-ish) shift of Big Tech into … [+9399 chars]
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Israeli men, armed with U.S.-made M16 automatic assault rifles, walk in a shopping center in Jerusalem on Oct. 25, amid the ongoing battles in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas. Yuri Cortez/AF… [+5989 chars]
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Enlarge/ The Google Gemini logo. 8 On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini, a multimodal AI model family it hopes will rival OpenAI's GPT-4, which powers the paid version of ChatGPT. Google claims th… [+3423 chars]
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The number of delegates at this year's UN climate talks who are also linked to fossil fuel producers has quadrupled since last year, campaigners say. Around 2,400 people connected to the coal, oil a… [+3312 chars]
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In a preprint research paper titled "Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?", two researchers from UC San Diego pitted OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model against human participants, GPT-3.5, and ELIZA to see… [+2411 chars]
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Israel has been actively fighting against the financing of Iran-supported militant groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. A new aspect of this continuous battle is the rising popularity of the cryptocurren… [+2335 chars]
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The quest for new materials, pivotal for technological breakthroughs in fields like EV batteries, solar cells, and microchips, has historically been a slow and labor-intensive process. This scenario,… [+3515 chars]
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Researchers at Google DeepMind have used artificial intelligence to predict the structures of more than 2 million new materials, in a breakthrough that could have wide-reaching benefits in sectors su… [+5708 chars]
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Hace poco más de los meses la NASA recuperaba la cápsula que traía a la Tierra restos del asteroide Bennu, recogidos por la misión OSIRIS-REx. Al abrir la cápsula los responsables de la misión descub… [+5346 chars]
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Called graphical networks for material exploration (GNoME), the technology has already been used to predict structures for 2.2 million new materials, of which more than 700 have gone on to be created… [+1147 chars]
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A European spacecraft has revealed the secrets of a star system that has puzzled researchers for years. The rare six sextuplet of planets was found thanks to data collected by Cheops the CHaracteris… [+2035 chars]
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NASA has announced a delay in its ambitious Dragonfly mission to Saturns moon Titan, moving the launch date to July 2028. This decision, driven by budget uncertainties, comes despite the mission succ… [+4120 chars]
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A 63-year-old man in Missouri went in for a routine colonoscopy, only to give doctors an extremely rare find: a perfectly intact (albeit dead) fly. "I've been doing this for over 20 years, so I've … [+1720 chars]
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Hace ya unos cuantos años, en agosto de 1991, un grupo de arqueólogos desenterró en Saskatchewan, Canadá, un amasijo de huesos de lo que parecía ser un dinosaurio que había vivido a finales del Cretá… [+5053 chars]
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Science fiction-style beam weapons that can destroy targets with directed lasers or microwaves are the near-term future of advanced weaponry. According to the US Office of Naval Research, the beam we… [+1514 chars]
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The philosopher of science Daniel Dennett once lamented that his peers didnt take engineering seriously enough. There are excellent philosophers of physics, philosophers of biology, philosophers of m… [+1230 chars]
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Sometimes, my friends would joke that the book would almost certainly face the wrath of the right wing, as if it were something to look forward to. They figured a polarized response would be good for… [+7490 chars]
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A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began this weekend in Gaza, as hostages and prisoners were freed by both sides. But any end to the immediate conflict still remains in doubt. Guest: Peter Beinar… [+628 chars]
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Researchers have detected one of the highest-energy particles ever falling to Earth. Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that come from sources in space such as the sun, but this recent detection i… [+2783 chars]
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Stranger Things has become one of the most beloved shows of this generation. The Netflix series appeals to both kids and parents thanks, in part, to its kid-centric cast and 1980s throwback setting. … [+8940 chars]
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Hace unas semanas la sonda OSIRIS REx regresaba a la Tierra con muestras del asteroide Bennu. No era la primera vez que rocas de un asteroide llegaban a la Tierra, pero el botín con el que regresaba … [+6165 chars]
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New research in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences, from University of Kent researchers Louis Bachaud and Sarah Johns, explores how members of various manosphere communities (think Andrew Tate a… [+6820 chars]
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Developer Dont Nods supernaturally-infused episodic adventure title Life is Strange has surpassed 20 million lifetime players since its launch in January 2015. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! read a po… [+2914 chars]
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Los precios del cacao han crecido un 75% este año y han llegado a un máximo que no se veía en los últimos 45 años. Hay muchos motivos, claro. La enfermedad de la vaina negra, la desaparición de los g… [+3789 chars]
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No es el más reciente rayo cósmico que ha impactado en la Tierra ni el más potente. Sin embargo, en el rayo cósmico Amateratsu (así lo han llamado los científicos que lo han estudiado) hay varios fac… [+3887 chars]
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If you've ever wanted to smoke your herb of choice out of a croissant, or an oyster, or an okra, or even a fried chicken drumstick, New Orleans-based and -inspired Ficus Ceramica's got you covered. … [+2594 chars]
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A little while back, I poked at a number of modern CSS features and openly evaluated whether or not they have really influenced the way I write styles. Spoiler alert: The answer is not much. Some, b… [+17393 chars]
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The puzzling cosmic ray had an estimated energy of 240 exa-electron volts (EeV; 10^18 volts), making it comparable to the most powerful cosmic ray ever detected, aptly named the Oh-My-God particle, w… [+776 chars]
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Scientists from the Telescope Array Collaboration have detected an ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray, a discovery thats challenging our current understanding of exotic cosmic phenomena and their origins. … [+5113 chars]
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As far as the climate (and, truthfully, much else) is concerned, 2023 has felt like one nasty jack-in-the-box moment after another; there have been a record number of billion-dollar natural disasters… [+6262 chars]
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Just before Coldplay took to the stage in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday night for their final stop of the year on their Music of the Spheres world tour, Malaysian authorities announced that a kill switch… [+8303 chars]
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MADISON, Wis. -- Animal welfare advocates filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to invalidate Wisconsin's new wolf management plan, accusing state wildlife officials of violating the state's open meeting… [+3801 chars]
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The general tone of most industry conferences tends to be akin to a sector-specific pep rally. But at an anti-factory-farming summit last month in Denver, the tenor of discussions was more like a gro… [+5959 chars]
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He:Let's end it all, bequeathin' our brains to science. She:What?!? Science got enough trouble with their OWN brains. -- Walt Kelly
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Enlarge/ Artist's illustration of a New Glenn rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. 10 with The first flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket seems to have a payload. Instead of la… [+5703 chars]
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Trust no onenot even mewho tries to tell you Ridley Scotts Napoleon is any good. Good is perhaps not the word to use. Napoleon is a sprawl, a messy pageant, a little crazy and yet perhaps not crazy e… [+6255 chars]
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English peas grow in simulated Martian dirt. Emmanuel Mendoza Humans have stepped foot on the moon, but we haven't made it to Mars. Yet. Amid the myriad barriers, a key issue to sending a crew to … [+4536 chars]
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A US court dramatically rolled back key elements of a landmark civil rights act on Monday, blocking individual citizens' ability to appeal against discriminatory voting practices. The decision - ap… [+7143 chars]
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Researchers Kenny Travouillon (Western Australian Museum), Christine Cooper (Curtin University), Jemmy Bouzin (Curtin University), Linette Umbrello (Queensland University of Technology), and Simon Le… [+4504 chars]
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For years, the Israeli government has allowed for widows to request posthumous sperm retrieval from fallen soldiers in the Israeli Defense Force. As The Times of Israel explains: Sperm must be retri… [+857 chars]
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Artificial Intelligence is gradually becoming an integral part of everything. The demand for advanced technologies and automation is driving the AI revolution. It is no longer science fiction or som… [+8803 chars]
Read MoreIlya Sutskever now says he regrets his role in arranging the ouster of now-former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.AMIR COHEN/Reuters <ul><li>Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist at OpenAI, has apologized for his r… [+7608 chars]
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A decisive majority of Argentinian voters opted for trying something new when they elected Javier Milei to be the countrys next president. Amid soaring inflation and rising poverty, Milei, a right-w… [+4974 chars]
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A view of thousands of galaxies in the galaxy cluster MACS0416, combining data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope.NASA Something very strange is going on in the unive… [+13936 chars]
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An experimental test of laser communications riding along with the Psyche mission has sent back its first data, in a demonstration of the use of laser communications for deep space missions. The Deep… [+2921 chars]
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Target is hosting one of the best promotions weve seen yet during Black Friday and thats saying something, given how good these early Black Friday deals are. Through Nov. 25, virtually all books, mov… [+5721 chars]
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Python "come with downsides," argues a new article in Communications of the ACM. "Its programs tend to run slowly, and because it is inefficient at running processes in parallel, it is not well suite… [+3303 chars]
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Exoplanets come in many forms, from dense, rocky planets like Earth and Mars to gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. But some planets discovered outside our solar system are even less dense than gas g… [+2623 chars]
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The sun sets behind pumpjacks on Sept. 15, 2021, in the oilfields of Penwell, Texas. Eli Hartman/AP AUSTIN, Texas Texas' education board approved new science textbooks Friday but called on some pub… [+3506 chars]
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Es una paradoja climática. Cada vez que encendemos los aparatos de aire acondicionado de nuestros hogares contribuimos a un mayor gasto energético y emisiones de CO2 que, en última instancia, acaban … [+6115 chars]
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It is an interesting fact that the most efficient way to generate electricity — at least so far — is to spin the shaft of a generator. The only real question is how you spin it. Falling water works. … [+1212 chars]
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A perimeter fence surrounds the U.S. Capitol in February ahead of President Biden's State of the Union speech in Washington, D.C. Mariam Zuhaib/AP With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer … [+9386 chars]
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For the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began, the Department of Education is moving forward with several investigations into U.S. colleges and schools where students have reported antisemitism… [+7671 chars]
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Climate records have tumbled in 2023. There have been historically high sea temperatures, worrying lows in Antarctic sea-ice, and extreme weather events hitting every continent - the latest being a… [+6086 chars]
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The civil fraud trial of Donald Trump concluded its first week of defense testimony Friday, with Trump's eldest son and a series of expert witnesses seeking to show that Trump is not liable for fraud… [+2882 chars]
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Crio Bru. I’m not a coffee drinker, but I like to have something warm to sip on as I get the day going. Kate and I have enjoyed Crio Bru on and off for the past few years, and it’s currently part my … [+2838 chars]
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Es uno de los fenómenos de la cultura pop más fascinantes y contundentes de la última década. El cómic 'Scott Pilgrim', publicado originariamente entre 2004 y 2010 en seis volúmenes, escrito y guioni… [+1868 chars]
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La meteorología en otros planetas puede ser muy extraña: desde aquellos en los que el metano se comporta como nuestra agua a aquellos en los que los diamantes caen del cielo. Ahora el James Webb ha e… [+4203 chars]
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The UK doesnt plan on introducing AI regulation anytime soon in contrast to the EUs and Chinas strict legislation efforts. During a Financial Times conference on Thursday, the countrys first ministe… [+1619 chars]
Read MoreA Long March-2C carrier rocket blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.Xinhua/Getty Images <ul><li>China is taking the competition to Elon Musk in the space race. </li><li>China will lau… [+2274 chars]
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@OnLeaks / MySmartPrice A new year approaches, which means a new slate of smartphones will start to hit in a few months. One of the first that we’ll see in 2024 should be from OnePlus with its flags… [+7007 chars]
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(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) This week I published a cover story profiling Sultan Al Jaber, the controversial president of the comi… [+3435 chars]
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to seek a resolution through dialogue to a dispute over the discharge of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear pl… [+3283 chars]
Read MoreUS President Joe Biden (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California on November 15, 202… [+4883 chars]
Read MoreAn artist's concept shows the variety of rocky, Earth-like planets that might exist across the universe.NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech) <ul><li>NASA scientists may have solved the mystery of … [+3761 chars]
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Bill Nelson, el actual líder de la NASA, dijo este año en una entrevista: «Queremos impedir que China llegue y diga que el agua es suya». Se refería, específicamente, al polo sur de la Luna, un terri… [+9141 chars]
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<ul><li>A published study states Google's AI model, "GraphCast," can predict the weather faster and with more accuracy than the standard European model.</li><li>Google's version is said to provide we… [+2375 chars]
Read MoreDustin Moskovitz (left) slammed Elon Musk (right).PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images and Chesnot/Getty Images <ul><li>Dustin Moskovitz called for Elon Musk to resign after he agreed with … [+4925 chars]
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Read MoreArcheaologists uncovered the remains of a pre-Viking age ship at the Herlaugshaugen burial ground this summer.Courtesy of Geir Grønnesby, NTNU Science Museum <ul><li>Researchers unearthed the remain… [+2988 chars]
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<ul><li>Google is opening Bard access to teenage accounts aged 13 and older.</li><li>Teens can ask Bard for inspiration covering a range of topics while also getting a bit of help with math equations… [+2659 chars]
Read MoreDogecoin was started as a joke in 2013.Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images <ul> <li>A physical dogecoin token is due to take a trip to the moon aboard Astrobotic's Peregrine Mission One.</li> <li>The lunar la… [+1621 chars]
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Enlarge/ The Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland is mostly a barren waste of lava fields. 3 with Intensifying seismic activity these past few weeks along Iceland's southwestern Reykjanes Peninsulamark… [+4804 chars]
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Bonobos (pictured) and chimpanzees are our closest relatives. A new study looks at how a community of bonobos behave when they encounter a different group of bonobos. It's markedly different from the… [+7789 chars]
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Does confidence equal competence? Not quite. In a talk that will make you better aware of yourself, experimental psychologist Robin Kramer delves into the Dunning-Kruger effect which argues that thos… [+2729 chars]
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In a breakthrough for artificial intelligence, researchers at Google’s DeepMind have developed an AI system called GraphCast that can predict worldwide weather up to 10 days in the future more accura… [+2258 chars]
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If you smell pine trees in the air, hear some bells in the distance, and feel a slight chill in the air, that must mean one thing: it’s Christmastime, baby! If you want to celebrate the season by wat… [+4287 chars]
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ATMORE, Ala. -- An Alabama inmate scheduled to be put to death Thursday by lethal injection for the shooting death of his friend's father urged young people to take a pause before making life-alterin… [+3969 chars]
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One curious fact about our era is that science has become a de facto religion, with scientists serving as clergy. I was reminded of this recently while reading Unsettled, in which author Steve Koonin… [+14984 chars]
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It used to be a common expression to say that something would happen when “people walked on the moon.” That is, something that was never going to happen. Of course, by 1960, it was clear that someone… [+6175 chars]
Read MoreChoosing a major can be difficult.Picture Alliance/Getty Images <ul><li>I'm a history professor who teaches a careers class for history majors.</li><li>I've found students are focused on the belief … [+4470 chars]
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In my earliest recollection from the story of my life as a human lab rat, Im 7 or 8 years old. Im sitting in an experiment room in Tolman Hall, a Brutalist building on the north side of the Universit… [+15535 chars]
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Whether you call it propaganda or greenwashing, companies have long used marketing to tout the good they do for the environment while obfuscating any negative externalities of their businesses. Howev… [+647 chars]
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If you corner any science person whos relatively online and into skin care, the discussion will almost inevitably turn toward the Lab Muffin Beauty Science blog. Thats because for many people, its cr… [+2204 chars]
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7:55 A.M. I wake up and immediately open Bumble. I swipe until I match with a woman who writes in her profile that the Mamma Mia! movies are better than the Avengers films. I promptly send her a mes… [+2591 chars]
Read MoreRent-settling algorithms used by landlords nationwide may be artificially increasing rents above market rates.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images <ul><li>Some big landlords are using algorithmic pricing sy… [+6081 chars]
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Para muchas personas y empresas en todo el mundo, saber qué tiempo va a hacer es una cuestión clave. No ya en el plano personal, sino sobre todo en el económico. Empresas y gobiernos llevan años desa… [+2939 chars]
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Science fiction, as a genre, can demand a lot from the actors involved. They’re tasked with reciting the kind of scientific mumbo jumbo that all sci-fi scripts contain and are forced to find ways to … [+4594 chars]
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GraphCast outperformed the model from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in more than 90% of over 1,300 test areas. And on predictions for Earth's troposphere -- the lowes… [+1555 chars]
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The SETI Institute, a leading non-profit in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, has received a transformative $200 million gift from the estate of Franklin Antonio, a long-time supporter wh… [+3247 chars]
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Climate change is making it harder to maintain safe homes and healthy families in the United States, according to an extensive report compiled by experts across the federal government and released Tu… [+4317 chars]
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Hot off a summer of record heat, a savage wildfire that destroyed Lahaina, and hurricanes that rapidly intensified into monsters, the United States today released its Fifth National Climate Assessmen… [+3306 chars]
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Nintendo has announced a new Indie World Showcase airs on November 14, and features roughly 20 minutes of updates and announcements focussed on indie titles coming to the Switch. The presentation st… [+1298 chars]
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NASA will hold off sending commands to its Mars fleet for two weeks, from Nov. 11 to 25, while Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the Sun. Called Mars solar conjunction, this phenomeno… [+759 chars]
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When the Lewiston High School Blue Devils boys' soccer team won a state championship, they brought joy to a community that was rocked by a mass shooting in late October. Russ Dillingham /Sun Journal… [+4033 chars]
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Ten months after unveiling the iPhone, then Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a splash with an open letter letting the world know that third-party developers would be able to write their apps for the smartph… [+14247 chars]
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Few things have maimed the spirit of Western civilization more than the myth of our expulsion from the Garden of Eden — a deeply damaging story about human nature, damning us and our relationship to … [+5988 chars]
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Marvel movies have always been product, but they used to be extremely well-oiled product: splashy, gleaming multiplex entertainment that hit its marks with the precision of a Stark Industries missile… [+6331 chars]
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Algún día, los anillos de Saturno se desvanecerán, fruto de las complejas interacciones gravitatorias y electromagnéticas entre el planeta y su entorno. Habrá que esperar cientos de millones de años … [+4018 chars]
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Lo llaman Rising Star, pero si algo caracteriza este sistema de cuevas de la "Cuna de la Humanidad", un valioso yacimiento arqueológico situado a 50 kilómetros de Johannesburgo, es su inaccesibilidad… [+5819 chars]
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Read MoreThe AI Pin is a wearable you touch to talk to.Humane <ul><li>Ex-Apple managers just released a $699 AI-powered wearable Pin device.</li><li>A lot of its functions are controlled by voice command, wh… [+4738 chars]
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A video circulating on social media featuring a woman removing posters with photos of kidnapped Israeli victims at the University of Southern California (USC) has gone viral. The New York-based nonpa… [+1941 chars]
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